Felix Bernstein

Felix Bernstein was a mathematician and statistician who is remembered for the "Schröder-Bernstein Theorem" of set theory. He was appointed director in 1907 of what he was to develop into the Göttingen Institute for Mathematical Statistics, and in 1911 was involved in the formulation and proof of what became known as the Borel-Cantelli lemmas. Bernstein worked out in 1924 the correct hypothesis for the genetic transmission of human bloodgroups, on the basis of the available statistical material.